Drabble: Terrible Pun

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Title: Terrible Pun

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Gwen, Ianto, Team implied

Rating: G

Written For: Challenge 317 – Mammoth at tw100

Spoilers: Nada.

Summary: Gwen doesn’t get puns.

Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

A/N: My seventh (and final) drabble for this challenge. This one’s a bit of a stretch. Apologies!

Over lunch, Gwen regaled the team with the tale of the moth that had got into her flat last night.

“It was horrible, fluttering around the lights, bumping into walls. I was scared it would get caught in my hair! It took Rhys nearly half an hour to catch it and put it outside. I really hate moths, especially the big ones, and that was the biggest one I’d ever seen. I’m not joking; it was huge!

“Maybe it was a mam-moth,” Ianto teased.

Gwen just looked at him, frowning.

“What?”

Ianto rolled his eyes.

“Never mind, bad pun, sorry.”

The End

Comments

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It frustrates me because the show had such tremendous potential but was hamstrung by its slavish devotion to one character in what was supposed to be an ensemble. All the other characters had far more interesting backgrounds and stories, but they were largely ignored until they were about to die. Torchwood could have been great, but it ended up being the Gwen Show.

[lilyrose225.livejournal.com]

Wasn't the idea to present the DW universe in a new way, with no worries about adult/mature content? Presumably that should have included more attention to other characters rather than a central, near-immortal character and his various companions. Maybe they found multitasking too difficult, when the writers were used to paying attention to only one or two characters?

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Well the writers on torchwood were different to the writers on Doctor Who, so they should have picked writers who could cope with an ensemble cast. I think RTD was the problem though. He wanted to make a show called Excaliber with Eve Miles in the lead. The BBC wanted a Doctor Who spinoff with JB in the lead, so RTD set it up and then worked on twisting it into the show he'd wanted to make. He was so obsessed with Gwen that everything had to revolve around her and he had final say on scripts. I can see him giving Gwen dialogue and tasks that had been assigned to other characters by the writers, and adding extra Gwen scenes. I don't know if he did, but there are so many scenes where Gwen does something or says something that would have made more sense coming from one of the other characters,

[lilyrose225.livejournal.com]

*sigh* It's just too bad, because they had so much potential to work with... And if they'd kept on going, they'd gain a bigger audience, especially if they'd upped the plots a little.

So many ifs... Obviously fanfiction is the only way to go here! XD

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Yep! Fanfiction rules, we can write anything, all the plots that are too ambitious for TV! We don't have to worry about special effects budgets =)

[lilyrose225.livejournal.com]

We don't have to worry about pleasing the showrunner, either! XD

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Oooh! Good point! We each get to be showrunner for own own versions of Torchwood!